Mexico Business News · May 2026
Discusses cervical-health treatment gaps in Mexico and cites Ananya Health as one of the startups targeting point-of-care treatment without specialist infrastructure.
Portable cryoablation to prevent cervical cancer
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Oakland-based seed-stage medical device company building CRCL, a portable battery-powered cryoablation platform for treating cervical precancer at point of care. Public materials emphasize access in low-resource settings, clinician/patient-centered design, and a no-consumable-gas approach.
Primary product
CRCL portable battery-powered closed-loop cryoablation platform for cervical precancer
Founded
2020
Headquarters
Oakland, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Sub-industry
Cervical cancer prevention devices
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
medical device commercialization
B2B healthcare equipment
Funding
Stage
seed-stage
Total raised
$3.1M
Latest round
Strategic investment · Jun 2025
Jun 2025 · American Cancer Society BrightEdge Venture Fund
Apr 2025 · Undisclosed investors
Sep 2024 · National Cancer Institute
Apr 2024 · eha Impact Ventures
Aug 2021 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Cofounder & Lead Engineer
CTO
Senior Product Development Engineer
Founders
Co-founder
Work & culture
Mission-driven, clinician- and patient-centered, and strongly oriented toward global health equity and access. Public materials describe a small distributed team, an all-woman team narrative on the company site, and a focus on intentional inclusive design.
Compensation
No public salary bands found. A third-party salary page suggests a standard benefits package, but verified compensation details were not publicly disclosed.
Product & market
Pricing
B2B medical device sales; positioned at roughly one-tenth the cost of traditional gas-based cryoablation, with exact public pricing not disclosed.
Differentiators
- —portable and battery-powered
- —closed-loop system with no consumable cryogen gas
- —designed for point-of-care use in any clinic
- —usable by non-specialists such as nurses and lower-level health workers
- —lower cost than traditional gas-based cryoablation
- —built for low-resource and LMIC settings
Technology
SolidWorks
Python
Altium
Customers
primary care clinics
low-resource clinics in LMICs
clinicians treating cervical precancer
nurses and other lower-level health workers
global health organizations and local/regional implementation partners
Competitors
traditional gas-based cryotherapy systems
heat-based thermal ablation systems
LEEP (loop electrosurgical excision procedure)
CryoPen
Scale & contact
Estimated monthly visits
1.2K
Latest news
Ananya Health · Jun 2025
Official announcement that BrightEdge made a strategic investment, selected Ananya Health for the 2025 BrightEdge Entrepreneurs program, and supported commercial-readiness work ahead of FDA submission in 2026.
Ananya Health · Sep 2024
Official announcement of a 2-year, $2.3M Phase II SBIR grant and an additional $250k from existing investors, including eha Impact Ventures.
BioWorld · Jun 2024
Covers Ananya Health’s closed-loop cryoablation platform, battery-powered portability, and lower-cost positioning versus traditional cryoablation.
Forbes · Jan 2024
Profiles Ananya Health as a co-founded cervical-cancer treatment startup and quotes its mission around intentional, inclusive design and access at the point of diagnosis.
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